Niles Public Library District

Nonfiction That Reads Like Fiction

84, Charing Cross Road	by Helene Hanff
All Over But the Shoutin’	by Rick Bragg
Among the Thugs	by Bill Buford
Angela’s Ashes	by Frank McCourt
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	by Maya Angelou
In Cold Blood	by Truman Capote
Into Thin Air	by Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild	by Jon Krakauer
Liar’s Club	by Mary Karr
Tender at the Bone	by Ruth Reichl
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales	by Oliver Sacks
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story	by John Berendt
Dry: A Memoir	by Augusten Burroughs
A Girl Named Zippy	by Haven Kimmel
Mountains Beyond Mountains	by Tracy Kidder
Orchid Thief	by Susan Orlean
Paris to the Moon	by Adam Gopnik
Positively Fifth Street: Murders, Cheetahs, and Binion’s World Series of Poker	by James McManus
Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary	by Simon Winchester
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls	by Mary Pipher
Riding the Bus With My Sister	by Rachel Simon
A Round-Heeled Woman	by Jane Juska
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders	by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures	by Anne Fadiman
Stiff: Curious Life of Human Cadavers	by Mary Roach
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail	by Malika Oufkir
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith	by Jon Krakauer
True Notebooks	by Mark Salzman
Out of Africa	by Isak Dinesen
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea	by Sebastian Junger
There Are No Children Here	by Alex Kotlowitz
This Boy’s Life: A Memoir	by Tobias Wolff
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life	by Walter Isaacson
Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away With Murder	by James B. Stewart
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Were Captain Cook Has Gone Before	by Tony Horwitz
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes On An Imperfect Science	by Atul Gawande
Charlie Wilson’s War: the Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History	by George Crile
Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany	by Michael Beschloss
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America	by Erik Larson
Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight	by Alexandra Fuller